SADOLETO, Jacopo.

Epistolarum libri sexdecim.Lyon, heirs of Sebastian Gryphius, 1560. 8vo. Title-page with woodcut publisher's device, and a different Gryphius device on the last leaf. With 19 decorative woodcut initials from two series. Sixteenth-century blind and gold-tooled calf.

716, (2) pp. Adams S-65; BMC STC French, p. 389; OCLC WorldCat (6 copies).A collection of letters in sixteen chapters by the bishop of Carpentras, the Italian Humanist and Maecenas Jacopo Sadoleto (1477-1547), to various abbots, bishops, archbishops and cardinals, as well as prominent lay people. Amongst these are famous names such as Alexander Farnese and Francesco Guicciardini. The letters are followed by a letter to Sadoleto's nephew Paul Sadoleto and a short biography. Much of Sadoleto's correspondence discusses possibilities to mediate between the Catholic Church and early Protestants through Counter-Reformation measures. He was condemned by prominent members of the clergy for his eagerness to reach a theological compromise, but the Pope appreciated Sadoleto's efforts and appointed him a member of an early Counter-Reformation commission. With an index listing the recipients of the letters. With several early owners' inscriptions -- including "Petri Stellæ et amicor," that is Pierre de l'Estoile (1546-1611), who shared the author's tolerant Catholicism, and his friends -- and several library stamps. A good copy. Binding rubbed and spine tattered, with a clumsy repair. An interesting collection of letters by an early agent of the Counter-Reformation.

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